You receive this error message because in SQL Server, a table cannot appear more than one time in a list of all the cascading referential actions that are started by either a DELETE or an UPDATE statement. For example, the tree of cascading referential actions must only have one path to a particular table on the cascading referential actions tree.

To work around this problem, do not create a foreign key that will create more than one path to a table in a list of cascading referential actions.

You can enforce referential integrity in several ways. Declarative Referential Integrity (DRI) is the most basic way, but it is also the least flexible way. If you need more flexibility, but you still want a high degree of integrity, you can use triggers instead.